The History of Tea

Posted by Tim Donaldson on January 26, 2018

A great video that explores Tea’s humble beginnings in China, the creation and exportation of Matcha to Japan before loose leaf tea was then exported further afield to Europe. Tea became a booming trade business which subsequently resulted in the destructive Opium war with Britain. Tea was then stealthy snuck out of China and became grown throughout the Asian continent. 6,000 years of tea summed up in a couple of minutes!